May 11, 2020 Software Open Access

adokter/bioRad: bioRad 0.5.2

Adriaan Dokter; Peter Desmet; Stijn Van Hoey; Cecilia Nilsson; bart1; Nicolas Noé; BerendWijers; plieper; Raphaël Nussbaumer; Bart Hoekstra

This release is primarily a hotfix for R version 4.0 (#375). All issues included in this release can be found here. New features and improvements include:

• regularize_vpts() is now much faster, and chooses more intuitive starting and ending point of the regularized grid, e.g. projecting on half hour grid will have time series start on the nearest half hour (#332).

• regularize_vpts() has new option keep_timestamp, which allows individual profiles to keep there original timestamp instead of the timestamp of the regularized grid.

• sunrise()/sunset() have improved documentation (#180) and new option force_tz (4968019).

• check_night() has new option offset, which allows day/night transition to be shifted by a temporal offset (#338). For example, this is useful when selecting night time profiles that start a specific number of hours after sunset.

• check_night() now works for vpi objects (23def64).

• filter_vpts() allows to select for day and night in vpts using new arguments night, elev and offset, based on functionality of check_night() (#345).

• New functions noy() and doy() to determine which night or day of the year a profile belongs to (#346).

• as.data.frame.vp() now has separate function page and deprecated parameter quantities (#364).

• get_quantity() now has improved documentation and allows to return height (#352).

• dim() now returns dimensions in a different, more logical order for pvol and vpts objects (#355).

• Improved documentation and unit tests for a number of functions thanks to an online bioRad sprint.

• Bugfixes (#330, #368).